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I went to the UK's largest rock festival to see its one and only videogame band

Critical Hit(Image credit: Future)Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle.I often think of the times the mainstream dips its toe into our colourful corner of pop culture a...

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Best Sciel Weapons in Clair Obscur Expedition 33

In Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, every playable character has a unique combat purpose and mechanics for players to master. Sciel stands as one of the best damage dealers in the game, relying on her Dark damage skills to eliminate hordes of weaker enemies or deliver a devastating blow to a single target. By mastering the...

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Reputable Leaker Says God of War Laufey's Release May Be Sooner Than You Think

God of War Laufey will potentially release in the first half of 2027, according to a well-known leaker. Although described as tentative at best, that release window would see the game arrive sooner than even many optimistic fans had predicted, potentially positioning God of War Laufey as one of Sony's highest-profile s...

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The Legend Of Zelda: Ocariana Of Time Remake Features "Timeless Gameplay"

An expanded official blurb for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake that can be found in the meta-text of the game's website suggests that the original's gameplay is being kept mostly the same.

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Dragon's Dogma 2 Is Getting Rid Of Most Of Its Microtransactions

More than two years after launch, Dragon's Dogma 2 is discontinuing the sale of many of its controversial microtransactions, as well as giving the digital version of the base game a permanent discount.

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All Weather Effects, Crop Mutations, And Multipliers In Grow A Garden 2

Much like the first game, Roblox's Grow a Garden 2 has various weather effects that can give you additional bonuses, result in special effects, or apply Mutations to your crops to make them worth more Sheckles.

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FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki references 'yet to be announced' games while commenting on controversy at parent company Kadokawa

In an email statement to Japanese gaming site Denfaminico Gamer, FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki indicated that the studio has unannounced new projects in the works, while largely demurring from making a comment about recent investor drama at FromSoft's parent company, Kadokawa.I've relied on machine translation to...

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The Best World Seeds in Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley is an open-ended farming life simulation where players can bring their vision of a perfect homestead to life. The game begins with the player inheriting a run-down farm from their Grandpa. As they move to the Valley, players can grow and gather crops, raise animals, and mine for resources to be self-suff...

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Halo: Campaign Evolved's Third-Person Mode Isn't As Bad As You Think

As far as I’m concerned, Halo: Campaign Evolved is already wiping the floor with 2011’s awfully polarising Combat Evolved: Anniversary.. While that version of the classic shooter played well and looked in line with top of the line graphics of the era, the ways in which it utterly tore apart the original art direction h...

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Netflix Keeps Hitting My Wallet, But That's Not Its Biggest Problem

There's no denying that Netflixis responsible for some of the best recent releases, but as it continues to grow ever more expensive, subscribers have been noticing major issues. When Netflix first launched, the company offered an incredible model and an impressive bargain. For less than $10 a month, subscribers were ma...

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Spore devs say the evolution game's previews were more ambitious than what they were actually making, and they 'built a fantasy in people's minds that was unachievable'

Spore is the greatest game that never was. Clear as day, I remember the wonder the pitch instilled in me as a young'un. It was to be a true simulation like The Sims, not just of daily life, but of the history of all lifeβ€”life as everything from a unicellular amoeba to a spacefaring alien of my own design, all realized...

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PlayStation's PC Pivot Is Abandoning Its Chinese Audience

One of the more underspoken impacts of PlayStation suddenly pulling away from PC, allegedly canceling plans for a Ghost of Yōtei port, is how it will impact the Chinese market.

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